Semmle
IT Services and IT ConsultingCalifornia, United States2-10 Employees
Semmle is a small, San Francisco-based IT services and IT consulting company that frames security as a shared responsibility and aims to secure all software by connecting security and development teams. It provides a code analysis platform that automates the detection of zero-day vulnerabilities and their variants, helping organizations strengthen the security of their software. Its technology is used by security and software engineering teams at major organizations, including Google, Microsoft, NASA, Nasdaq, and Uber, to secure their code. The company maintains a public library of analyses contributed by researchers from leading firms and offers a development-focused platform that flags the most relevant security alerts to prevent vulnerable code from reaching production. In 2019, Semmle was acquired by GitHub, illustrating its role within the broader software security ecosystem.